Abstract reasoning ignores details, generalizes and simplifies. It exalts principles whilst discarding facts. Ideas are beliefs rather than truths. Ideologies are a matter of conviction and actuality is not their primary concern.

It is in the nature of abstract reasoning to hyperbolize selected principles and [...]

Generalizations make abstractions attractive. Each generalization is a simplification. It is easily absorbed as it does not require examination but only interpretation. Grasping an abstraction is relatively effortless because it does not necessitate gaining new information but merely filtering the known available data. Assimilation of an abstract concept is rather a [...]

Masturbation certainly played a telling role in human evolution. Undoubtedly it enriched sensitivity of the hand and genitalia and, if you pardon the pun, lent a helping hand to the enlargement of the brain. Sexual self-gratification therefore helped develop a capacity for thinking and self-consciousness. Reasoning and sexuality in this sense coevolved [...]

Abstract reasoning filters details. It generalizes, simplifies and forms higher concepts by ignoring particulars. Abstractions refer to ambiguous general categories and ideas that may exist only in perception. They may depend more on filtering than on sensory experience so they can be quite subjective.

Sigmund Freud has special merits to psychology. He is to be thanked for stressing the importance of the unconscious, sexual drive and sexual frustration. He invented psychological repression[i] that became central to his psychoanalysis and introduced psychological defence mechanisms.[ii]

Nature has wisely associated sexual sensation with pleasure in order to ensure reproduction. The sensory input of the foreskin receptors originally invokes sexual pleasure at some point of its processing in the brain. So apart from its inseminating role the penis is an organ of pleasure. And the [...]

The circumcision of adults triggers minimal cortical reorganization, if any at all. The loss of sexual sensation and pleasure is clearly perceived. Its compensations are sexual and conscious. The circumcision of children before puberty evokes a psychological shift of medial profoundness. The loss of sexual sensitivity could be partly realized because sexuality [...]